The Future of Work

These are my links for February 2nd through February 7th: Communicating Cohesion: Evaluating Local Authority Communication Strategies – About Siri :: Product :: Siri – Your Virtual Personal Assistant – Semantic web application Linked Data | Linked Data – Connect Distributed Data across the Web – Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia…

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These are my links for January 27th through January 30th: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust – Integrated Business Plan – Government to set up its own cloud computing system | Technology | guardian.co.uk – The government has unveiled a sweeping strategy to create its own internal "cloud computing" system – such as that used by Google, Microsoft and Amazon – as part of a radical plan that it claims could save up to £3.2bn a year from an…

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These are my links for January 20th through January 25th: Focus: IDeA Communities of Practice « E-Government Bulletin Live – The large and growing network of collaborative tools that make up the ‘Communities of Practice’ (CoP) project, hosted by the local government Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), is a rare ‘Web 2.0’ success story in the UK public sector. CoP (http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/) began in the autumn of 2006 as a pilot project testing around 100 discussion forums with 5,000 council managers….

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These are my links for January 15th through January 19th: Met Office : Weather Widgets – The Met Office web site weather widget system gives you the chance to create a tailored weather widget to use on your own site. You are able to choose the content and layout in order to suit the needs of your web page. Select from the options below to create your widget and then click the "Get script" button to create the script for…

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These are my links for January 6th through January 11th: Facilitating online communities – WikiEducator – Facilitation is a rare and valuable skill to have. It is a service that is often used in conferences, debates, panels and tutorials, or simply where groups of people are meeting and need someone to help negotiate meaning and understanding, and to keep everyone engaged and on task. * Good facilitation depends on good communication skills. * Good online facilitation depends on good online…

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These are my links for December 31st through January 6th: Linked Data | Linked Data – Connect Distributed Data across the Web – Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and…

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These are my links for December 23rd through December 30th: Defining social media : Tim’s Blog – Definitions are useful things in research and critical thinking around a subject. When studying the youth work uses of social network sites, I found boyd and Ellison’s clear definition of what constitutes a social network site to be extremely useful in giving focus to the work. Right now I’m working with Kevin Harris on an essay around the potential uses of social media…

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These are my links for December 17th through December 22nd: Knoco stories: Data, Information, Knowledge – Nick Milton explains the difference between data, information and knowledge, and by association, data management, information management and knowledge management. Good, clear narrative. YouTube – Steve Dale at KIMPS09 – Presentation at KIMPS Speech on Smarter Government | Number10.gov.uk – The Prime Minister delivered a speech on Smarter Government, in London on 7 December 2009. Digital Engagement | Director of Digital Engagement – The…

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These are my links for December 9th through December 15th: Openly Local :: Making Local Government More Transparent – Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information. knowledge management for development – Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. Social networking | Social by Social – Setting up a Ning website Social Media…

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These are my links for December 6th through December 9th: Tweepular – Tweepular has a bright colorful interface that helps you to organize your followers and your followings. You can sort the tweeps by date added, number of followers or last updated in either ascending or descending order. Twitter follow stats, graphs and widgets | Twitter Counter – Twittercounter provides you useful insights on you are doing on twitter in terms of number of followers and tweets. You can measure…

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